Main Street Arkansas awards honor Rogers projects
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Four projects associated with Main Street Rogers were honored Jan. 9 with Main Street Arkansas awards, Main Street Arkansas Director Cary Tyson announced. Main Street Arkansas is a program area of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.
The Main Street Arkansas awards are presented biannually to recognize outstanding achievements by individuals, organizations and communities in helping to revitalize their downtown areas. The Main Street Arkansas Advisory Board selects the winners. The awards were presented at the annual conference of the Arkansas Municipal League in Little Rock.
Main Street Rogers-associated projects received the following awards:
Best New Exterior Signage Daisy BB Guns, Main Street Rogers
Best Business Commitment to Downtown (tie ) Beth Guest, Main Street Rogers, and Rivertowne BBQ, Main Street Ozark
Royce Bolding Volunteer of the Year Ron Bird, Main Street Rogers
Judy Thacker Board Member of the Year Ed McClure, Main Street Rogers
Also receiving Main Street Arkansas Awards were:
Best Promotional Publication Showdown at Sunset Trading Cards, Main Street El Dorado (The Main Street Advisory Board gave an Award of Merit in this category for Main Street Paragoulds new program brochure. )
Best New Downtown Business (tie ) Elm Street Bakery, Main Street El Dorado, and Cotton and Kudzu, Main Street Helena
Best Creative Fundraising Effort Main Street El Dorados Union County Rock, Paper, Scissors championship
Best Faηade Renovation over $ 10, 000 Garrett Building, Main Street El Dorado
Best Interior Design Project Garrett Building, Main Street El Dorado
Best Facade Renovation under $ 10, 000 Bass Music, Main Street Paragould
Best Downtown Public Improvement Project Dickey-Stephens Park, Main Street Argenta (North Little Rock )
Best Public / Private Partnership Money for Main Economic Incentive Program, Main Street Blytheville and Blytheville / Gosnell Chamber of Commerce
Best Window Display (tie ) Hoffman Architectural, Main Street Searcy, and Flowers by William, Main Street Dumas
Best Special Event Downtown Blues and BBQ, Main Street Texarkana
Best Upper Floor Development Larry and Joy Pennington, Main Street Argenta
Outstanding Main Street Merchant Mary Gay Shipley, Main Street Blytheville
Spirit of Main Street (tie ) Ed Hollar, Main Street Batesville, and Ramona Clower, Main Street Blytheville
Executive Director of the Year Michael Drake, Main Street Argenta (This award winner is selected by vote of all of the Main Street Arkansas executive directors ).
Main Street Arkansas provides technical assistance and design services to help create economic development in the states downtown areas. The Main Street approach to downtown revitalization focuses on
Cities currently involved in Main Street Arkansas are Batesville, Blytheville, Dumas, El Dorado, Hardy, Harrison, Helena, Little Rocks South Main Street, North Little Rock, Osceola, Ozark, Paragould, Rogers, Russellville, Searcy, Texarkana and West Memphis. Members of Main Streets Arkansas
For more information on the Main Street Arkansas program, write the program at 1500 Tower Building, 323 Center St., Little Rock, AR 72201, call (501 )
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program is the Department of Arkansas Heritage agency responsible for identifying, evaluating, registering and preserving cultural resources. Other agencies are the Arkansas Arts Council, the Delta Cultural
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